Sunday, April 18, 2010

Shashi Tharoor resigned as Minister of State for External Affairs Sunday night after the high-level Congress Core Group decided that he should quit in the wake of controversy over the IPL Kochi franchise, capping a week-long drama that threatened to suck the government and the party into it.

54-year old Tharoor, a newcomer to politics from international diplomacy, was summoned by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to his residence late Sunday night and asked to tender his resignation.

"Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for External Affairs has submitted his resignation from the Council of Ministers to the Prime Minister Shashi Tharoor resigned today. The Prime Minister has forwarded his resignation letter to the President with a recommendation that it be accepted," PMO spokesman said.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

TNEA counselling 2011 begins on june 28th-> last date for issue of application forms is May 29-> last date for submission of completed application forms is May 31-> tnea Random numbers will be assigned on June 20-> tnea rank list will be published on June 26-> anna univ counselling will begin from July 8

anna univ counselling for admissions to engineering colleges in the State will begin on June 28, Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy announced here on Wednesday. Mr. Ponmudy said the anna univ counselling process is scheduled to take for 27 days and will end on July 25. This year's process would be 15 days shorter than the previous year's counselling, he said.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

The Teachers Recruitment Board has conducted Certificate Verification in the ratio of 1:5 for the candidates who have been sponsored to this office through the Commissioner of Employment & Training, Guindy, Chennai-32, based on State-vide Employment Registration Seniority. The Teachers Recruitment Board has conducted Certificate Verifications in the districts on 02-11-2009 & 03-11-2009 and 30-12-2009 & 31-12-2009 for the candidates who were sponsored in trb selection list 2010..

Candidates, totalling 255, are provisionally selected in trb selection list 2010 as Graduate Assistants for the following Departments for the subjects Tamil, English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, History and Geography in accordance with the communal rotation and certain priorities laid down by the Government of Tamil Nadu on the basis of State-vide Employment registration seniority list sponsored by the Commissioner of Employment & Training, Guindy, Chennai-32. The formal trb selection list 2010 intimation will be sent to them individually by post. Further notification / communication will be issued by the concerned Departments regarding counselling and placement. The results for remaining subjects will be released shortly.

The tamilnadu electricity board(TNEB) is constituted under the Electricity (Supply) At, 1948 (Central Act 54 of 1948) and authorised to function as the State Transmission Utility and a Licensee as notified by the Government of Tamil Nadu

Government of Tamil Nadu has accorded an in principle approval for the re-organisation of tamilnadu electricity board(tneb) by the establishment of a holding company, by the name tamilnadu electricity board (tneb) Ltd and two subsidiary companies, namely Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation Ltd (TANTRANSCO) and Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Ltd (TANGEDCO) with the stipulation that the above mentioned companies shall be fully owned by Government . The Govt. has also constituted a Steering Committee to finalise the transfer scheme for the re-organisation oftamilnadu electricity board (tneb) under section 131 of the Electricity Act, 2003.

The tamilnadu electricity board (tneb) expanded itstneb online payment of electricity bill facility for Chennai-based domestic consumers, allowing customers of Indian Bank and ICICI Bank to make payment of power bills online. According to an official release by tamilnadu electricity board (tneb), the facility would enable account holders of Indian Bank to pay their power bills through net banking while ICICI Bank customers can make payment by Credit Card or Debit Card as well as net banking.

Earlier, the tamilnadu electricity board (tneb) had introduced an Any Time Payment system (24 hours) last April in collaboration with Canara Bank, benefitting nearly 35,200 consumers.

Later,tamilnadu electricity board (tneb) joined hands with Axis Bank to allow payments by Credit and Debit Cards, the release said adding that the aforesaid measures would benefit 28 lakh consumers in and around Chennai.

The tamilnadu electricity board (tneb) has sought a three-month extension from the central government to complete the unbundling process. The board had been given a dozen extensions in the last six years.

tamilnadu electricity board (tneb), Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation Limited (TNTCL), has started functioning, the registration of the distribution and generation company, Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company Ltd (TNGENDISCO), and that of the holding company, TNEB Ltd, are over but the transfer of assets and employees is yet to be completed.

"We were supposed to finish unbundling by March 15, but could not meet the deadline. Hence, we have asked for a three-month extension and there are chances of us getting permission as we have done a majority of the bifurcation related work," said a senior tamilnadu electricity board (tneb) official.

The proposal for an increase in the power tariff submitted by the tamilnadu electricity board(tneb) to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission met with stiff opposition at the first public hearing here on Tuesday. Most participants wanted thetamilnadu electricity board(tneb) to first tackle the transmission and distribution losses and none was willing to take a hike.

With its annual losses crossing the Rs 6,000-crore, tamilnadu electricity board (tneb) was forced to think of revising its tariff-- something which it has not done in more than a decade. While plans to revise the tariff in 2001 and later in 2003 did not fructify, the government was forced to roll back a differential tariff hike for the domestic sector in October 2008.

A majority of participants at Tuesday's public hearing in the city tamilnadu electricity board (tneb) were from industries, small and big. S Gandhi of the Power Engineers Society of Tamil Nadu said there should not be any subsidy for the elites. "Those who consume more than 600 units should not be given any subsidy. Those who consume lesser can be given some concession," he said.